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Plot Summary:
An actress (Natalia Sayko) is faced with the job of dubbing her voice after the final version of her movie is wrapped. (All actors dub their lines for the master copy of a film.) But she is overcome by her own life-crisis that alters her plans -- just released from the hospital, she realizes that her illness is more than she can emotionally handle -- it will kill her eventually. Overwhelmed, she has to reconsider her simple task of dubbing from a completely new perspective. This film had an attendance of 2.3 million in the Soviet Union when it was released.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min
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John, 316 (2020)
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A psychiatric hospital is turned upside down when a mysterious drifter is admitted and assigned to room 316. Known only as John Doe, the other patients believe that he bears an uncanny resemblance to Jesus Christ.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min
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Ivantsov, Petrov, Sidorov (1978)
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min
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Brother and Sister (2022)
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Alice and Louis are brother and sister. She is an actress; he was a teacher and poet. For more than 20 years, Alice has hated her brother. In all this time they haven’t seen one another. The death of their parents brings the siblings face to face.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
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On the Nickel (1980)
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feature film written, produced by, and starring Ralph Waite (best known as John Walton, Sr., on the long-running CBS television series, "The Waltons"). The film tells the story of Sam (Donald Moffat), a recovering alcoholic who feels dissatisfied with his life of sobriety and goes back in search of the good times he enjoyed with his old friends living on Los Angeles' skid row (Fifth Street - hence the film's title). Eventually finding his best friend, "C.G." (Waite), still living on the nickel, the two men reminisce, and Sam gets a fresh look at the lifestyle he had once vigorously abandoned. The film is a multi-level odyssey through the slums of L.A., as well Sam's personal ruminations as he re-evaluates the nostalgia he had felt for the free and bohemian lifestyle of a street person.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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God's Creatures (2022)
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In a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips apart their family and close-knit community.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
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Crying for Love (2008)
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Three girls meet by chance in a hospital. Struggling to come to terms with their fate, they all look back on a decisive moment in their life: Sara, a professional swimmer relentlessly urged on by her ambitious father, was deprived of her only real chance of happiness. Mette has left her deeply religious family, finding it too hard to bear that they have accepted her fate while she hasn't. And Stephanie has brutally rejected her boyfriend in fear of being rejected herself. Although their stories are very different, the three girls are brought together in their search for love and companionship. Based on the Oscar nominated short fiction »At Night«.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min
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Three Wise Men (2008)
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Three middle aged men, long time friends, get together in a normally closed Karaoke bar to drink their failed lives away. Secrets are revealed and sometimes discovered and they sing their miseries one by one during Karaoke sessions. The arrival of a lone woman to the bar will facilitate revealing of the final secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min
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One Careful Owner (2020)
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Sara is offered a chance to buy the perfect apartment, roomy, very luminous and inexpensive. She only has one little problem: she can't live in it before Lola, the actual and aged owner, dies.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 831
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: emotional
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Yang Yang (2009)
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Yang-yang is a French-Chinese mix. She has never seen her French father. She does not speak a single French word. Her mum has re-married but she has been very lonely. She started working at the entertainment industry. The fact that she is a mix is a good selling point. The film depicts how Yang-yang dealt with her life, her relationships with men, with her mother and friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 112 min
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Throatful of Strawberries (1985)
Plot Summary:
A story about partly miserable lives of middle aged men and unfulfilled dreams of youth.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 84 min
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Maidstone (1970)
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Over a booze-fueled, increasingly hectic five-day shoot in East Hampton, Norman Mailer and his cast and crew spontaneously unloaded onto film the lurid and loony chronicle of U.S. presidential candidate and filmmaker Norman T. Kingsley debating and attacking his hangers-on and enemies. This gonzo narrative, “an inkblot test of Mailer’s own subconscious” (Time), becomes something like a documentary on its own making when costar Rip Torn breaks the fourth wall in one of cinema’s most alarming on-screen outbursts.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: political, cult classic, independent film, weird, cinema verite, fake documentary
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Pinches Actores (2015)
Plot Summary:
The daily struggles and hopes of an entire group of Mexican actors: Freddy, Sandra, Jonathan, Karina and Jorge, show us what "being an actor" really means on a daily basis.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration:
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Actor Martinez (2016)
Plot Summary:
Dreaming of fame and fortune, a local Denver performer hires two indie filmmakers to come to town and make a film with him as the star.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: meta
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Theatre (1978)
Plot Summary:
Human attempts to understand why when acting they are all going through the heart, but in real life are playing a role.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 136 min
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Under the Pavement Lies the Strand (1975)
Plot Summary:
West Berlin, 1974. The revolution didn't happen like it was supposed. Grischa, a 30-year-old actress dissatisfied with standard left-wing politics, interviews working women to find out how they deal with being both mothers and members of society.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: political, art house
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My Little Sister (2020)
Plot Summary:
Berlin playwright Lisa follows her husband Martin to Switzerland, where he manages a private school. However, when her twin brother Sven’s leukaemia begins to wreak havoc on his health, she decides she must return to her roots, which has significant consequences for her relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Nina Wu (2019)
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Nina Wu, a girl who leaves small theatre company in the country for the big city in pursuit of her actress dream. The wait seems to be endless, as she lives a lonely and repressed life combined with hereditary condition, she suffers from minor depression. One day, she gets a role as a heroine in a 70s espionage film. Having decided to devote herself completely to the character, she did everything she could to get the role and she did succeed. When she finally welcomes her long anticipation of fame, series of unfortunate events and threats start to haunt her. Having to struggle her way through gender and sexuality equality, can Nina, like many other minor individual fight against the odds in life and stand undefeated? Or is it just real life that no one can escape from endless hardships?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan, Malaysia, Myanmar
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, social, art film, psychological thriller, surprise ending, ambiguous ending
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The Beginning (1970)
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A film-in-film story set in a provincial town in Russia. Pasha is an amateur actress who plays a witch at a local club, but her dream is to play Joan of Arc. In a strike of luck she is cast as Joan of Arc in a big screen film. Now she is torn between her luck and her love to Arkadi (Kuravlev) who is a married man.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min
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A Long Goodbye (1971)
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A single woman has put all her efforts into raising her only son, Sasha. When Sasha grows up to become a teenager, she thinks that she can have some time for herself, so she responds to the courtship of Nikolai Sergeyevich. One summer, Sasha goes to visit his real father in Novosibirsk, on the other side of the country. When he returns, his mother notices that Sasha has changed. She secretly reads a letter sent to Sasha from his father and finds out that Sasha doesn’t want to live with her any longer. She doesn’t have enough wisdom to understand this desire on someone else’s part. Sasha is shown to have a more delicate and understanding nature than his mother, for when he realizes that she is suffering because of his wish to leave, even though he is tired of her nagging, he decides to stay.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 948
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min
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La rabbia (2008)
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A young director years old, lives with a girl. Active part of the Intellectual society, he represents perfectly the union between fear and determination, that changes deeply his way of understanding the world that surrounds him. His only aim is to leave a footstep of his presence on this world realizing a film.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, intellectual, independent film
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Everything for Sale (1969)
Plot Summary:
Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 846
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: semi autobiographical
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Beauty and the Beast (1983)
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When Mette and her father are left alone over the Christmas holidays to paint the new nursery the father ends up alone most of the time. The 16-year-old Mette is always off with her friends at the disco or skating, and the father does not mind until he discovers that young Jønne has taken some semi-nude photos of Mette and clearly is intending to go further in their relationship. Suddenly the father starts hanging out with Mette and her friends as they practice winter sports together - and there is hardly anything stranger, or more embarrassing, as far as Mette is concerned. It is clear that father and daughter are heading toward a change in their relationship as both have to adjust to her "growing up.".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 87 min
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October November (2013)
Plot Summary:
Director Gotz Spielmann follows his acclaimed thriller Revanche with this visually captivating character study, in which a family reunion at a mountainside inn lays bare old wounds and reveals long-held secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: crying
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This Summer Feeling (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sasha, a French woman of thirty, dies suddenly in Berlin. Her Fiancé, Lawrence, and her sister Zoé, must come to terms as the consequences of this shock set in.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 689
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, unusual plot structure, sad, disturbing, contemplative
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The Elegant Empire (2023)
Plot Summary:
A man and a woman take revenge desperately yet elegantly after being trampled on by enormous power.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 40 min
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The Dresser (2015)
Plot Summary:
One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear. Bombs are falling, sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor/manager Sir who is playing Lear is nowhere to be seen. His dresser Norman must scramble to keep the production alive but will Sir turn up in time and if he does will he be able to perform that night? The Dresser is a wickedly funny and deeply moving story of friendship and loyalty as Sir reflects on his lifelong accomplishments and seeks to reconcile his turbulent friendships with those in his employ before the final curtain.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sad, touching
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The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of how one of the famous movie roles was cast. The role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
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Opening Night (1977)
Plot Summary:
An actress suffers an emotional uproar in her personal life after a fan dies trying to see her.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, thought provoking, art house, postmodern, cerebral, tense, clever, realistic, contemplative
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Feed (2017)
Plot Summary:
Olivia and Matthew Grey, 18-year-old twins born into a world of privilege and high expectations. There are almost no boundaries between them - even their dreams are connected.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, tense, sincere, captivating, suspense, disturbing, cliffhanger, teen
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My Mother (2015)
Plot Summary:
Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, social, existential, crying